This is partly, one suspects, a consequence of his comfortable, self-confident background.
In "Italian Ways" Mr. Parks writes that Berlusconi's smile is a combination of "comfortable self-congratulation" and "victimhood".
Russell Wangersky's Whirl Away investigated the consequences to an assortment of characters when they are pried out of their comfortable self-delusions and forced to face their weaknesses.
But the Breadman's people had the comfortable, self-possessed air of travellers from some great distance, who had at last arrived at their ultimate destination.
Comfortable self-catering apartments and houses are spread over five areas - choose a view of the ocean, lake or golf course.
A bumper edition, enhanced by the comfortable, self-effacing confidence of Radcliffe and endless irresistible numpty-ism during the pre-election period, not least the Lib Dems' battle bus having a lighting system featuring "disco mode".
The bridge was naturally excited by the test subjects, who were allowed to walk at a comfortable self-chosen pace.
But for these five guys, their sense of comfortable self-awareness really comes through".
Because they were comfortable self-producing on all their previous albums, they refused to bring in an outside record producer for 12 Gauge.
A survey of same-sex couples in the United States showed that between 2000 and 2005, the number of people claiming to be in same-sex relationships increased by 30%—five times the rate of population growth in the U.S. The study attributed the jump to people being more comfortable self-identifying as homosexual to the federal government.
In much the same way I don't feel comfortable self-identifying as an alcoholic (because, y'know, the state never took away my kids because I couldn't stop drinking Bud Light Lidentifying), identifying as queer when I'm not entirely gay (earlier I made it seem as though I begrudgingly dated men, but I assure you I truly do love dick) feels disingenuous.
